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The US administration is sending (mixed) isolationist signals, leaving a vacuum of international leadership. Can Germany, which has taken tentative steps into the spotlight in recent years after a half-century of self-constraint, translate this into expanded global influence? That all depends on the diplomatic, pragmatic Chancellor Angela Merkel, writes Lutz F. Krebs.
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Chancellor Merkel and former U.S. President Obama at the German Protestant ‘Kirchentag’, Berlin, May 2017.
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Lutz F. Krebs, United Nations University
With the US administration sending isolationist signals, Germany stands to gain from the global power vacuum.
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Environment + Energy
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Samuele Furfari, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Can Poland reduce its dependence on cheap and dirty domestic coal power?
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Politics + Society
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Luigi Narbone, European University Institute
Migrants crossing Libya to reach Europe increasingly face violence and human traffickers.
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Jannie Rossouw, University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa needs to start thinking about life after President Jacob Zuma. Given the damage that he's done, serious thought should be given to forming a government of national unity.
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Arts + Culture
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Ronald Hall, Michigan State University
At the root of the skin bleaching phenomenon is a psychological complex.
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Business + Economy
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Jonathan J.B. Mijs, Harvard University
People in some of the most unequal countries in the world think theirs is the paradigm of meritocracy. Can the data help explain this phenomenon?
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